It’s 2007. There’s absolutely no excuse for websites today to not allow special characters in their passwords. Whether you use a memory scheme or an encrypted database application for generating and storing your passwords, it’s highly annoying when you come across a site that requires you to lower your password security standards based on character length or complexity.…
Security: Implementing A Secure And Usable Internet Password Scheme
Being an information security consultant I am often asked how to balance the need for online passwords that are both hard to guess and easy to remember. There are a number of solutions out there for dealing with the problem, but the system that I’m about to outline below is an elegant hybrid of simplicity and security. It…